AustroadsNews | April 2018

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Contents

World Road Congress 2023

Opportunity to lead our Assets Program

Feedback now open on Guide to Temporary Traffic Management Parts 2 and 8

New guidance on road construction quality assurance

Roadmap to automated national bridge assessment

Pedestrian Facility Selection Tool updated

Best practice in road safety infrastructure programs

Join us for Webinar: Towards Safe System Infrastructure

Register now for Webinar: Geopolymer Concrete and its
Applications

Webinar: Local Road Access for High Productivity Freight Vehicles, now online

Australian Road Safety Conference 2018

Road and transport research reports

Upcoming workshops + conferences

World Road Congress 2023

Austroads has partnered with Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) and Business Events Sydney (BESydney) to bid to host the World Road Congress (WRC) in Sydney in 2023. The bid is also supported by other road agencies across Australia and New Zealand.

Hosting the congress in 2023 gives Australia and New Zealand an opportunity to showcase some of our groundbreaking innovation in road infrastructure and technology, learn from countries who are setting the benchmark in other areas, and play an active role in shaping the future of our global industry in today’s digital, globalised world.

We believe every country can apply the lessons
from Australia and New Zealand’s strong partnership approach to the governance, delivery and funding of major projects. From developing nations, through to destinations with modern networks and the most advanced technology.

We hope you will support Australia and New Zealand’s bid and join us on the road to Sydney in 2023!

a targeted, risk based approach to independent monitoring and reporting on the performance of a
contractor’s QA process

a resource that can be used for training across the industry.

Systematic and effective quality control by a road construction contractor, and reliable auditable evidence of that control, provides a win-win outcome for both contractors and road agency clients.

Effective quality control will enable the contractor to minimise rework and the associated cost and time over-runs. A transparent QA process with auditable evidence of compliance will enable the road agency to satisfy itself that what is built complies with specified requirements and can therefore be expected to achieve its intended
life and performance at the expected whole of life cost.

Roadmap to automated national bridge assessment

Austroads has released a report that extends work previously undertaken to investigate the development and implementation of a national automated bridge assessment framework.

The report outlines the ongoing validation works, recommends a set of activities to assist in the deployment of the framework, and provides a roadmap to implementation.

This project has built on work conducted in Austroads project TP1681, which first investigated the potential for the framework. This stage of the project included further validation work, small scale trials of the framework with state jurisdictions and identification of key factors for the
implementation.

Pedestrian Facility Selection Tool updated

Austroads has recently updated the Pedestrian Facility Selection Tool, designed to help Australian and New Zealand practitioners select the most appropriate type of pedestrian crossing based on walkability, safety and economic outcomes.

Based on user feedback, the tool has been enhanced with more functionality including consideration of raised and flush medians, a new field for maintenance costs, a site inspection form and additional refinements to the tool.

Austroads has released a report that provides best practice recommendations for the development of Road Safety Infrastructure Programs (RSIPs) that align with the safe system approach.

For many years, investment in road safety infrastructure in Australia and New Zealand has adopted a bottom-up approach of targeting safety improvements at locations with an established safety problem. This is commonly delivered through crash reduction programs, and black-spot and black route analyses and treatments. While this approach served Australia and New Zealand well in the past, the ability to achieve safety benefits based on reactive risk assessments and treatments has become increasingly difficult. This approach does not fully align
with the safe system philosophy on which Australian and New Zealand road safety strategies are based.

The report’s recommendations provide practical information on ways to make greater fatal and serious casualty savings from road safety infrastructure investment by improving program design, process and implementation. When implemented by road controlling authorities this best practice approach will effectively contribute towards an enduring and safer transport system with fewer fatalities and serious injuries.

Thursday 10 May 2018 | Online, 1pm AEST

The Safe System is internationally regarded as the best practice approach to road safety. Although Australia and New Zealand have been early adopters of the approach since 2004, there has generally been a lack of clarity amongst practitioners on how best to integrate the approach into their daily activities.

This webinar will provide an overview of the new Austroads compendium of knowledge on Safe System treatments and real world experience in the practical application of
solutions that can mitigate crash severity. It will outline information covered in a series of workshops on the translation of the Safe System approach, enabling attendees to consider the application of the theories onto their own road networks.

You will gain an understanding of the:

new Austroads compendium on Safe System infrastructure relating to planning, designing and managing roads and roadsides

origins of the Safe System and current implementation

Safe System solutions that can be used to address key crash types

tools that have been developed to help align infrastructure projects with Safe System outcomes.

Join in a live Q&A with the presenters to ask questions about Safe System infrastructure.

Presented by Dr Jeremy Woolley and Dr Blair Turner.

No charge but registration is essential.

Can’t make the live session? Register
and we’ll send you a link to the recording.

Register now for Webinar: Geopolymer Concrete and its Applications

Tuesday 1 May 2018 | 12pm AEST

In 2017, Austroads completed a four-year research project to provide a base for the use of geopolymer concrete in structural and non-structural applications. The project consisted of a review of literature and experimental work.

The webinar will outline the findings of the project and a current update of the use, monitoring and specification of geopolymer concrete by VicRoads over the past nine years.

Join in a live Q&A with the presenters to ask questions about geopolymer concrete.

Presented by Dr Ahmad Shayan and Fred Andrews-Phaedonos.

No charge, but registration is essential.

Can't make it to the live session? Register and we'll send you a link to the recording.

Webinar: Local Road Access for High Productivity Freight Vehicles, now online

This webinar, presented on 27 March, outlines the contemporary barriers to local road access for high productivity freight vehicles, and some of the options available for local road managers when considering road access. Presented by Rob Di Cristoforo.

ARSC2018

Sydney, 3-5 October 2018

The 2018 Australasian Road Safety Conference (ARSC2018) will be held in Sydney from Wednesday to Friday 3-5 October 2018. The Australasian College of Road Safety, Austroads, ARRB and Transport and Road Safety Research (TARS), UNSW are proud to support the largest road safety-dedicated conference in the Southern Hemisphere.

With a theme "Towards Zero: Making it Happen!”, ARSC2018 will showcase the regions’ outstanding researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and industry spanning the issues identified in the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety:

Road and transport research reports

​NZ Transport Agency

March 2018
The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that forecasts requirements for intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies in 2035. This report identifies the associated industries, skills, and occupations in which ITS may be deployed, and assesses the role of training organisations.

BITRE reports

Released mid month - Latest April 2018
This bulletin contains current counts and summaries of road crash deaths and fatal road crashes in Australia. It is produced monthly and published on BITRE's website on or around the 14th of each month. Data are sourced from the road traffic or police authorities in each jurisdiction.